December 10, 2012 10:28 AM
Posted by: Eric Slack
Disaster recovery,
disaster recovery planning,
disaster recovery testing,
Eric Slack,
hybrid cloud,
Hybrid cloud storage,
Storage Channel PipelineDisaster recovery protection is about much more than simply putting a second backup appliance offsite and replicating data to it. Real DR requires a comprehensive DR plan, which always features
December 3, 2012 11:59 AM
Posted by: Eric Slack
Eric Slack,
object storage,
Storage Channel PipelineI had the pleasure of going to ExecEvent's first Next-Generation Object Storage Summit last week in Miami. In attendance were a number of the major players in the object storage space -- some well-known companies and some that may...
November 19, 2012 10:46 AM
Posted by: Eric Slack
Eric Slack,
object storage,
Storage Channel PipelineObject-based storage devices, or object storage for short, have been around for a number of years. But it’s become a hot topic with the near-endless capacity needs of cloud...
November 5, 2012 11:38 AM
Posted by: Eric Slack
Cloud Services,
cloud storage gateways,
cloud storage services,
Disaster recovery,
disaster recovery planning,
Eric Slack,
hybrid cloud,
Hybrid cloud storage,
Storage Channel PipelineHere we are again after a natural disaster talking about DR. It seems like we do this every few years, starting with 9/11, then Hurricane Katrina and now Hurricane Sandy.
Humans are reactive, not proactive, except in terms of the next event. After each of these disasters, there was certainly a...
October 29, 2012 10:42 AM
Posted by: Eric Slack
clustered NAS,
Eric Slack,
Overland Storage,
Storage Channel Pipeline,
Tape storageRemember Overland Data? Way back in 2000, it was the tape company that was selling a modular tape library (using AIT and DLT drives back then). It was a great story:...
October 15, 2012 9:36 AM
Posted by: Eric Slack
Embotics,
Eric Slack,
Storage Channel Pipeline,
storage resource management (SRM)Readers of this blog know that I’ve got a special interest in new products, especially those that can open doors for a storage VAR or MSP. Working for an independent reseller myself for a dozen years, I was always on the lookout for products with a high sexiness factor because they got meetings...
October 9, 2012 9:50 AM
Posted by: Eric Slack
DataDirect Networks,
Eric Slack,
high performance computing (HPC),
object storage,
SSD,
Storage Channel PipelineI went to an analyst event a couple of weeks ago sponsored by a storage company that many in IT may not be aware of despite that the company has been in business for more than 10 years. It is private and has yearly sales of more than $250 million and more than a thousand active customers.
October 1, 2012 9:49 AM
Posted by: Eric Slack
big data,
Eric Slack,
Storage Channel,
Storage Channel PipelineI know that "big data" has become one of the darlings of the storage industry, as evidenced by the number of times this term is used in online technical media articles. Storage...
September 17, 2012 11:51 AM
Posted by: Eric Slack
Eric Slack,
reseller channel business development,
Storage Channel,
Storage Channel PipelineI read an article by Gartner recently that talked about the "devaluation of IT." It discussed how over the past 10 years budgets have remained flat but the expectations of management on IT and the requirements to understand and implement solutions involving the cloud, virtualization, mobile...
